Last Words

Throughout the day on Wednesday, February 22, the PICU nurses at the Connecticut Children's Medical Center, Hartford, monitored Avi's neurological functions by (among other tests) asking him where he was, his age and his birthdate. The first several times, he correctly identified his location as "the hospital."

Later that day, however, he began insisting that he was at "HHNE," the Hebrew High School of New England. Unable to convince him that he was at the hospital, I finally challenged Avi by demanding, "If you are at HHNE, then where's your homework?!"

His response: "You know I don't do homework!"

Had I known while he was alive and in good health how advanced ("cutting edge" in the words of a co-owner of Digital Pandemic) a coder he was, I might have bugged Avi less about doing his science homework!